[bruin66]

The ads get posted to the MoveOn Web site because of a now-acknowledged lack of adult supervision...

Is that another way of saying "no contolling legal authority?"

[Tall_Texan]

Is the Democratic primary race a political campaign or is it "Lord of the Flies"?

I'm not sure it's mature enough for Lord of the Flies. It might pass for National Lampoon's Animal House however.

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[EggsAckley]

LOL @ the image of "Lord of the Flies."

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Here are some more vile ads from MoveOn.org -

BUSH IN 30 SECONDS

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

While he acknowledges that "we agree that the two ads in question were in poor taste and deeply regret that they slipped through our screening process," he says the real blame lies with the Republicans for drawing attention to them

Based on the articles I've seen here, I think both the ADL and the Wiesenthal Center beat the RNC to the punch. At best it was a tie.

[Jackson Brown]

The Republican National Committee and its chairman have falsely accused MoveOn.org of sponsoring ads on its website which compare President Bush to Adolf Hitler. The claim is deliberately and maliciously misleading. . . . None of these was our ad, nor did their appearance constitute endorsement or sponsorship by MoveOn.org Voter Fund.

This denial of responsibility is pure BS. They sponsored the contest and ran these two ads on their web site. In the Internet age, this constitutes publishing them -- even if only for "consideration". Just because they didn't pay to run them on TV does not mean they are not their ads. They are responsible for the content of their web site no matter how they talk about "slipping through their screening process"...period!

They had to view the ad -- and -- then do all the stuff necessary for the ad to appear on their web site...it is not like a forum where a moderator missed deleting something some outside party uploaded.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Must do this on every MoveOn thread, and you can't stop me (sticking tongue out and going thppffffft)...

http://www.politicalhumor.com

[Dan Evans]

What a bunch of weenies. When National Review put the Clintons on their cover dressed in Mao jackets you didn't see all kinds of waffling and backpedaling from the NR staff.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - dimoRAT ALERT

[Ditto]

"I am somewhat of a street fighter."

I'm betting that this Park Ave, prep school boy was never in a fight in his life.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Is the Democratic primary race a political campaign or is it "Lord of the Flies"?

Typical Dean Apparatchik lying in wait for a Capitalist to pass by.

[Libertina]

How DARE the Republicans draw attention to our failed advertising campaign to attack George Hitler er... Bush! We are terribly upset and angry at this politics of personal destruction by the extreme Right Wing!

[Looking for Diogenes]

The ads get posted to the MoveOn Web site because of a now-acknowledged lack of adult supervision...

Even as hard as the moderators work on FR it too could be accused of the same lack of discretion. From the posts I've seen just about everybody calls somebody Hitler (or a Nazi or a fascist) around here.

Unless we want FR to remove every post that refers to "Hitlery" I think this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

[Johnny_Cipher]

Am I the only one who sees a certain delicious irony in an organization that calls itself "MoveOn" being unable to, you guessed it, move on?

[Political Junkie Too]

The thing is, they're the ones calling conservatives, Bush nominees, etc., "extremists" or "outside the mainstream."

Can you get more extreme than calling Bush Hitler? Can you get more extreme than calling Bush the worst president ever? Can you get more extreme than calling Bush's policies the worst bills ever?

-PJ

[jedi150]

There's a theme here, isn't there? First we have these ads comparing Bush to Hitler, which show a childish ignorance of history. They seem to be based on the syllogism: Bush is bad, Hitler was bad, therefore Bush was Hitler. (The S factor indeed.) The ads get posted to the MoveOn Web site because of a now-acknowledged lack of adult supervision and then, rather than simply accept responsibility for this rather grievous error, Boyd lashes out at Republicans, as if his incompetence and his members' stupidity and viciousness were their fault.

Soooooooo typical of the Demokraps and their methods of operations!

[Lazamataz]

The left is absolutely mad.

We cannot have these people ever get into power again. If they do, they will mandate that people staplegun shoes to their foreheads.

[Sofa King]

"There's a theme here, isn't there? First we have these ads comparing Bush to Hitler, which show a childish ignorance of history. They seem to be based on the syllogism: Bush is bad, Hitler was bad, therefore Bush was Hitler. (The S factor indeed.) The ads get posted to the MoveOn Web site because of a now-acknowledged lack of adult supervision--and then, rather than simply accept responsibility for this rather grievous error, Boyd lashes out at Republicans, as if his incompetence and his members' stupidity and viciousness were their fault."

When has ANYTHING bad EVER been their fault? What these idiots don't realize is that they are monumentally closer to Hitler with this kind of behavior than the people they hate.

[Petronski]

...nor did their appearance constitute endorsement or sponsorship by MoveOn.org Voter Fund.

MoveOn.org paid for the website that presented the Hitler ad to the public: that by definition is sponsorship.